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One woman is among three persons arrested in connection with‎ the discovery of a quantity of cocaine in ornaments at an airline bond at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA). Police spokesman, Ivelaw Whittaker said anti-narcotics agents unearthed the cocaine in ceramic ornaments during a search on cargo at the bond. Demerara Waves Online News was told that the narcotic ...

A Britten Norman Islander plane crashed Monday morning on landing at the Monkey Mountain airstrip but no one was seriously hurt. Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Zulfikar Mohamed told Demerara Waves Online News that the plane ran off the runway on landing. He confirmed that the aircraft, bearing registration number 8R-GGY, was damaged and that investigators ...

Former American Ambassador, Brent Hardt has said that the Guyana government has demonstrated its willingness to fight the narcotics trade, and drug barons would be brought down by the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Asked why the US has been virtually silent in calling on government to go after drug lords in the same way that there have been ...

The Guyana government has accused critics of then Acting Foreign Minister, Priya Manickchand of being “racist” and “sexist.” Presidential Advisor on Governance, Gail Teixeira said attacks against Manickchand following her public humiliation of former United States (US) Ambassador to Guyana, Brent Hardt about his tenure here was yet another instance of Indian women being targeted. Teixeira alluded to the Alliance ...

Former Executive Member of the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Ralph Ramkarran believes that the President Ramotar administration has missed a good opportunity to respond specfically to the United States’ (US) calls and criticisms for not holding local government elections. Less than one week before American Ambassador to Guyana, Brent Hatrdt wrapped up his three-year tour of duty here, he ...

The body of a former nurse at the New Amsterdam Hospital was Sunday morning found in the ‘Blacka’ near Sophia, days after he escaped from home, a relative said. He has been identified as 25-year old Terron Watts of New Amsterdam and Sophia. His aunt, Coretta Eastman, believed that the young man committed suicide due to ongoing problems with his ...

Battling years of severe flooding whenever there is rainfall, the residents of 6th Street, Alberttown, Georgetown hope their clean-up exercise and other efforts will be “contagious” enough to spread to other areas of that city ward. They pooled their money and labour to Sunday remove loads of silt and other obstructions from a drain running through their community. Chipping in ...

At least 19 persons, who were allegedly involved in an illegal protest on the Essequibo Coast, on Saturday remained in police custody as an assessment of the situation continued, Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud said. The Guyana Police Force later said in a statement that two tractors, four trailers, two motor cars and two motor cycles that were among the vehicles ...

Rice farmers on the Essequibo Coast were Friday night burning tires and other debris as they continued to blocking the road at Three Friends village with tractors and trailers to demand faster payments by millers. Region Three Chairman, Parmanand Persaud was escorted by police to appeal with the farmers but his effort was in vain. They have expressed no confidence ...

A British national was Friday arrested allegedly with a quantity of cocaine in milk tins shortly before he was about to board a flight to New York, a well-placed source said. The 29-year old man was taken into custody after agents of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) said they found the narcotic in several five-pound milk tins. He was ...